# This file contains arcane configurations copied from a random old wiki entry # One day I shall revisit this and see what's needed and what isn't { boot.loader = { efi = { canTouchEfiVariables = true; # assuming /boot is the mount point of the EFI partition in NixOS (as the installation section recommends). efiSysMountPoint = "/boot"; }; grub = { # despite what the configuration.nix manpage seems to indicate, # as of release 17.09, setting device to "nodev" will still call # `grub-install` if efiSupport is true # (the devices list is not used by the EFI grub install, # but must be set to some value in order to pass an assert in grub.nix) devices = [ "nodev" ]; efiSupport = true; enable = true; # set $FS_UUID to the UUID of the EFI partition extraEntries = '' menuentry "Windows" { insmod part_gpt insmod fat insmod search_fs_uuid insmod chain search --fs-uuid --set=root $FS_UUID chainloader /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi } ''; version = 2; }; }; boot.loader.grub.base16.enable = true; }